Quote Originally Posted by ThorneDynasty View Post
I'll never understand why people focus so much on potencies going up. It doesn't matter to the gameplay in the slightest in vacuum, they will go "up" across the board and boss HP balanced so that trials and raids will take about as much as they do now. It really only matters in relation to other jobs (which will be kept in similar balance they are now, in a patch or two) and between the different abilities.

And even for the latter... Under the 120s-spend-all meta, you'll just use everything during burst without caring much about potency priority, so does it really make a difference how it's delegated between skills? As long as it doesn't create some silly meme-rotation situation.
It matters when it comes to damage variance. Having all your potency spread out between multiple abilities means you do not suffer quite as much from that ability not critting. If a majority of your damage is in 1-2 abilities it can make your overall dps jump wildly depending on whether or not those abilities crit under the 30%+ buff windows.

But ask the Gunbreakers how it feels when Double Down doesn't crit during your 2-min burst.